These resources are invaluable for scientists studying how organelles keep cells running, says Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, a senior group leader and interim head of Janelia's new 4D Cellular Physiology research area who is already using the data in her own research. In addition to two companion articles in Nature, Janelia scientists also released a data portal, OpenOrganelle, where anyone can access the datasets and tools they've created. 'By using machine learning to process the data, we felt we could revisit the canonical view of a cell,' Weigel says. But the new algorithms make it possible to map an entire cell in hours, rather than years. The data for just one cell is made up of tens of thousands of images tracing all a cell's organelles through that collection of pictures would take one person more than 60 years. The detail in these images would be nearly impossible to parse by hand throughout the entire cell, says Aubrey Weigel, who led the Janelia Project Team, called COSEM (for Cell Organelle Segmentation in Electron Microscopy). New computer algorithms can automatically identify some 30 different kinds of organelles and other structures in super high-resolution images of entire cells, a team of scientists at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Research Campus reports Octoin the journal Nature. Now, high-powered microscopy-plus a heavy dose of machine learning-is helping to change that. But for all that scientists have learned about these miniature ecosystems, much remains unknown about how their parts all work together. The bean-shaped mitochondria make energy, for example, and lanky microtubules help cargo zip around the cell. Cell biologists have known the basic functions of most of these structures, called organelles, for decades.

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